Go For It!

It’s graduation season, and youths to adults are partaking in the fruit of their years of hard labor. After all of the studying, stress, testing, and prayers, students are finally experiencing the joy of crossing another finish line in the race of life.

As with our physical life, our spiritual one has thresholds and greater levels as well. How well are you doing in the School of Life spiritually? Have you passed any tests, learned any lessons, and ‘graduated’ to any new heights in God? Or have you been standing in the same place for the last few ‘semesters’?

There’s always something new to learn, and we don’t always have to learn them from hardships. God is always waiting to reveal more of Himself to us. He always has new facets that He would love to share about His Word. We just have to take the initiative to get in His presence and learn from Him.

As we continue to learn and grow, we will find our spiritual experience heightened to new levels beyond what we could dream or think about. Can you imagine having the kind of relationship with God like Abraham or Moses or even Jesus? Who knows what we could achieve if more Christians would graduate to those levels!

So, while it is important to go after scholastic knowledge, it’s equally important to chase after the knowledge of God in the same way. The Bible says that if we get closer to God, He’ll get closer to us. (James 4:8) We, however, have to take the initiative to take those steps nearer to God.

Let’s all become better students of the Word, so we can graduate to new levels in the Spirit! I know the payoff is much better than a mere diploma.

Verse of the Day: Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3: 13, 14